Trump admin planning to fly immigrants to U.S. cities away from the border

The Department of Homeland Security is laying the groundwork on a plan to transport recent border crossers by plane to cities around the U.S. and release them after processing, according to two DHS officials familiar with the plan. Local officials in South Florida said on Thursday that they were preparing for hundreds of immigrants to begin arriving in Broward County on a weekly basis. Beyond South Florida, DHS is considering other areas around the country where immigrants can be released, the officials said. One of the officials said they were looking at places with the capacity to process large numbers of immigrants, but declined to give further specifics on cities or regions under consideration. Customs and Border Protection would be responsible for identifying which migrants to put on planes bound for the interior of the country, and the agency would rely primarily on Immigration and Customs Enforcement airplanes. There are no plans to detain migrants in the cities where they are released,..MORE